Charlie Sims

About Charlie Sims

A well rounded controls engineer with experience in a vast variety of industries. Environmental abatement, ridgid plastic containers, paperboard and other packaging have been the spotlight of my career, but I have experience in steel and other large mills, water/wastewater treatment facilityies, OEM machine build, food and beverage, and quarries as well.Allen-Bradley forward, but a strong background in Siemens and other PLCs as well. Customer specifications dictate the hardware to be used and that will never change.i am currently in a role developing control solitions for environmental abatement equipment including thermal oxidizers and selective catalytic reducers. This includes NFPA requirements for gas trains.Specialties: PLC programming, Project Management, budget tracking, instrumentation, control panel design, hardware/software design, integration, iiot

Experience

1. Lead Senior Project Engineer Electrical

   Dürr CTS - Clean Technology Systems

   Mar 2026 — Present · Southfield, MI, US

   Leading a small team or electrical engineers and designers.

Education

• Lawrence Technological University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  1999 — 2005

Skills

• Hmis
• Plc Programming
• Engineering
• Budgets
• Troubleshooting
• Allen Bradley
• Project Management
• Electronics
• Engineering Management
• Project Engineering
• Cad
• Instrumentation
• Process Control
• Control Systems Design
• Manufacturing
• Process Improvement
• Integration
• Programming
• Program Management
• Scada
• Plastics
• Continuous Improvement
• Packaging
• Control Logic
• Variable Frequency Drives
• Plc
• Electrical Engineering
• Autocad
• Automation
• Electricians